Four charged in Middletown prostitution sweep

MIDDLETOWN — City police arrested four women Tuesday and charged them with prostitution, the latest group of arrests in an ongoing crackdown on prostitution downtown.

Amanda German, 34, Melissa White, 33, Christina Bohm, 25, and Hope Springer, 26, all of Middletown, were all held pending arraignment in city court.

City police have made numerous prostitution and patronizing a prostitute arrests downtown over the past few months, two of the biggest batches being 15 alleged johns on Aug. 30 and seven alleged prostitutes on Aug. 22.